a scenario that roots from a vanishing farming communities

It is a situation with so many variables at play. It is tempting to give the easy explanations. And because these explanations is readily embraced, the situation is getting dimmer.

The first variable at play is that the fruits of the farmer's labor is not enough to sustain a growing family. With price controls on farm products as a government staple to control inflation and the limitedly-inspired infrastructure (roads and "congress") at play, these two acts as griding stones to our farmers.

It also does not help that the weather is behaving in ways never seen before. This adds to the uncertainty that farming communities have to deal with.

Because of these variable's dynamic, the natural progression of a farmer's thoughts is to look for certainty. And this certainty is expressed in the growing OFW dollars.

But this certainty is also limitedly-inspired. As more dollars go back to the Philippines to alleviate the life of most Filipinos, the value of the dollar decreases.

The situation now forces ALL OF US to understand the bigger world, the globalized world and look at its dynamics.

If there's a good that comes out of this painful situation this will be it - we will be educated in the forces that moves the economics of a globalized world. Of which, the present generation of farming-rooted personalities will have to learn. More so, for the next generation.

But here's a discomforting thought. What if this heavy situation that we are in is really the plan of the greedy. Think, if farmer's lose hope on their lands - what would they do? Would they sell it? Of course! They will sell it to send their children to school so that their children have a better chance at certainty.

If this goes on, then all the land will be consolidated in the hands of the fewer. The fewer that has enough capital to exploit the fruits of the Philippine's true gold, its fertile land.

I hope this is simply a rumbling of an uncontrolled fear.

I hope our government is still "...for the people, by the people and of the people."

I hope our government really make good in building infrastructure that will cost-effectively link the fruits of our fertile lands to the buying markets of the whole world so that those who labor will benefit the fruits of their aching backs and their sun-darkened skin.

I hope our government really make good in allocating the biggest part of our budgets to the countryside's education so that they grasp the expanded truth of our present situation.

Lord, raise up a new generation of teachers and of educators to aptly contextualized what a global economy is to everybody. May we see what You want us to see.

Lord, I pray for our leaders and the would-be leaders that they act the way You want them to act.

Lord, help us also to be good followers to Your instituted authority here on earth.

Remind us Father that You love us and that You will never forsake us. You are our strength and our portion forever.